BBC Wildlife Magazine

GILLIAN BURKE

WITH EVERY PASSING YEAR, certain memories grow clearer, and dearer. Charles Ellington’s laboratory at Cambridge University was a place of smoke and mirrors – quite literally – with a giant mechanical hawkmoth to boot. The darkened room looked more like a scene from Batman than an entomology lab as the matte black wings beat with robotic precision.

Charlie, as he was called by

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